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Cantoned adj.

(Her.) Having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

(Arch.) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

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"Cantoned" Quotes from Famous Books

... wisest proceeding to frustrate the violence of the soldiers, by prolonging their hope of executing their project whenever they might wish, he spreads the rumour, that the troops were to winter in the same towns on the year after also. For they had been cantoned throughout the cities of Campania, and their plots had spread from Capua to the entire army. This abatement being given to the eagerness of their projects, the mutiny was set at rest for ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... of MONTMORENCY beareth a shield of gold with a scarlet cross, cantoned with sixteen azure eagles, four ...

— The False Chevalier - or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette • William Douw Lighthall

... eat his boots." For a long time the garrison had lived on unwholesome bread made with starch, upon linseed and cocoa, which scarcely sufficed to keep the soldiers alive; the population, reduced to live on soup made of herbs gathered on the ramparts, died by hundreds; the prisoners cantoned in the port in old dismasted vessels, uttered cries that reached the ears of their old generals. The latter had refused to send in provisions for the prisoners, in spite of the promise of Massena to reserve it for them. The last food was used up; on the 3rd of June the ...

— Worlds Best Histories - France Vol 7 • M. Guizot and Madame Guizot De Witt

... hardy active militia, who have been constantly beating up their quarters, and captivating and destroying their troops; so that in the six or seven last weeks, they have not lost fewer than three thousand men, about two thousand of whom, with many officers, are now our prisoners. Instead of remaining cantoned in the pleasant villages of Jersey, as the enclosed authentic copy of Mr Howe's order to Colonel Donop (the original of which fell into our hands by the Colonel's flight from Bordenton) will show you that General vainly expected would be the case, they are now collected upon the Brunswick Heights, ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I • Various

... the Baron, with a touch of ill-humour. 'Is the dog defeated by the hare? Our troops are all cantoned along the frontier; in five hours the vanguard of five thousand bayonets shall be hammering on the gates of Brandenau; and in all Gerolstein there are not fifteen hundred men who can manoeuvre. It is as simple as a sum. There can be ...

— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson